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Posted: November 25 2014 at 14:37
^Sorry aapatsos, but my tolerance for AOR wears thin do to associations with groups like Starship and songs like We Built This City or Heart with These Dreams. A bit too sweet for taste and probably the only rock genre that I cannot get into. But AOR is the most successful rock category, so it must have done something right.
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Posted: November 25 2014 at 14:29
Gino Vannelli made some really nice albums in the 1970s. "Brother to Brother" (the song and the album) was probably his most successful. He was a highly talented white R&B type vocalist who favored complex arrangements and dabbled with progressive suites (e.g. "War Suite" from Gist of the Gemini, and the orchestrated title track from "Pauper in Paradise", each taking up nearly a whole album side). His bread and butter was soulful balladry like the hit "I Just Wanna Stop", but even those have a pretty high level of musicality to them.
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Posted: November 25 2014 at 14:12
Saga does the AOR-Prog thing well. Some albums like Silent Knight emphasize prog more, while Worlds Apart and Heads or Tales are a pretty even mix. The newer albums are more in line with their early works, which is wise. Full Circle, House of Cards, Trust and 10,000 Days are the best of their post-1998 offerings.
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Posted: November 25 2014 at 14:00
I admit I have a "sweet tooth" for proper, sophisticated,
well-constructed AOR (see e.g. Toto) if there was ever such a thing.
More so, I enjoy when prog blends with AOR and creates a nice, catchy mix of powerful melody and intricate passages with changes of rhythm etc.
I guess a lot of this would come from late 70's/80's e.g. I particularly enjoy (early) Magnum, Styx. They are both under prog-related here which makes absolute sense. Similarly the early 80's era of Blue Oyster Cult shows some great mixes of prog with AOR. And of course Kansas have, IMO, often done the same.
Any more examples please? Prog bands that have blended AOR successfully? Any modern examples?
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